Centuries of tradition governed the arrangement of such subjects as the Crucifixion and the Last Judgment, so that even the free painters of the Renaissance had deviated but little from it.

In Tintoret the freedom of the Renaissance reached its height.

For him tradition had no fetters.

When he painted a picture of Paradise for the Doge's Palace it measured 84 by 34 feet, and contained literally hundreds of figures.

His imagination was so prolific that he seems never to have repeated a figure.